New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-10-09
SOMETHING ABOUT SOUTHERNERS
SECRETARY LAMAR AND JEFFERSON DAVIS
SOUTHERN SENTIMENT.

SOUTHERN SENIlMENI.
When Secretary Lamar recently In New-York
| had tho good fortune to have free talk with him.
1t not In tho nature OF an interview because Mr.
Lamar expressly said that no had matter Of public
interest which he desired to lay before the public In
an interview, whercupOn no added with quiet laugh
{" / feel lulo guilty whenever newspaper man
asks mo for an interview, II have nothing to say to
him, because tho newspaper press has on the whole
been kind and generous to mo and the correspond
cnts havo been So courteous. that as public man
sometimes feel as though | ought to reclprocate by
giving them an Interview l have found as public
man. especially In executive Office that the best way
to treat newspaper men Is to give them freely every
thing you have, put the documents right before them
and let them havc all the information They want
tho exact facts and will not seek anything else The
best way Is to gve them tho facts right from head
quarters from fist hands II they can get them IN
that manner thoy will not seek them at second hands,
vou may be SIRE and il they cannot secure them at
first hands they are not to blanc II they do seek
them wherever they can get them. Public ana'rS
havo to occupy so largo place IN the popular
mind and undersf andms that tho demand for lnior-
nation about public affairs is ono that newspapers
and public men both obliged to meet nave
found It tho best way to meet 1t frankly
In conversation with Secretary Lamar, | learned
that the present Prohibition movement in the SCUM
Is not Of such recent growth as the demOhsuao" Vi
its strength appears to indicate There has Deeh
strong Temperance sentiment In tho South for over
hals-century 1t formerly found expression IN var-
Gus societies. In tie Wsshlngonlan movement ana I'd
general tcn,nrrance work. secretary Lamar himself
entered publlc life for the first time through o'i
sion Of the Mhig ranks tho temperance question:
Tho Wings had 600 majority III the legislative ds'is'
in Georgia where no for member OF tho Legs
laturo IN 1853. They had become dvided On 'he
Temperance question, and through that spt secretary
np.f "A
prize.
In talking with Secretary Lamar and other leading
SON, hcrncr. havo found that they regard inc CUT
oicd population Of the south "a menacihg io'la'an
winch may some DAY combine In ponuca way "
overthrow tho ruling powers. Ihey arc ''iS ,-
from Regarding the enfiro black population as uo
maze, ar d,.solutc There Is an element growing
nm I'm tLc south which mag be TERMED lazLaiohl'
similar TO tho h.dcous lalarOni population III l'a'S
II 1. To be- found I'm tho go cities ana 'o"nS anu "
composed Of VICIOUS bd, x, VINO live OH inc Hui'S "
the Labor Of their wives, who are "ishci"oAo"' 81 W.
,. and General servants These men spend then tine
I'm dlinklne gambllng thevns ana hsh"ns' my
c,r, razor, and draw them ON the slightest pf"Nooa
81, Iut u,o great mass Of the black population IL
,,,,I Il a. being fairly well-empercd ana improving
i, moral condition. pr1mincnt Sou'her"ei "
maxi d: The tendency oi the vicious e'e'ion. VI io
black, IN tho South In pllincs Is toward inc hepuDn
c,n Marty Among the better Dlach Hclii ""iN '1N'N -
,o Il sp.tlnc their fcauy to the KcpuOii'dn la.S
,bc ., - ut err lies that influence them fOI ilse'Oo
~ nacbman Of a prominent MISSISSIPPI staesl,I'
H. = strnur leader among his race ITO ID al onr
tc~ui,.cau Ills ma er Is d DcHloCidI' i"o -" 80
MAJ, "a been 50 kindly treated a sclNd' '. ,no
49, -, never runs for once without fecelN ING eav
,,nnnrt of tho cOachnan. In the NOI'h VIC - 49,,
mid wish to show his independent oS an, 49, -
''etn.. III, master, but IL Is not 80 III 'Ao @V"''
,oon. southern men whom have met in New
York. oven whcro they hayo accepted the ne" ofucI u
fu,- and are thus sub eccd TO tho criticism Oh 'oI
,d leader | have found great admiration eAPVesscu
1r jefferson Davis, not on account OF his uoeU"e
-, stae sovereignty, but because of the courage o'
MS persistence in advocating his theories long ai'cr
rho whole country has cast them utterly ASIDE ono
man said: This spectacle of Jefferson DAVIS h'I
h.,tu. bcen manaclcd and thrown INTO prison.
n,r having seen nearly every living associate return
i,to harmony with the spirit OF the times by ticltIS
gang himself u b. MlohE stdiuhH up anu anu
Ia a,count A, we'll his brother, the senator, "hep
tbe1 MAIDS statements which lie held 10 Dc iac, d.
tr,,cly asserting All the tlme that no was III INC
Mn, i. certainly . pUaIhaulc one. lie oAeVtld'es
n. ,tho have submitted bitterly "a he stIihos d.S
Nnrh,fu man whose hand l. raised against mn. Il
doe. # all with a oouItosy and grace OF manner, anu
renewal of Ngor that calls Tor adHhfd'loh d'Aoue"
not accompanied by approval